On May 20, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
No, it won't. Or if it does, the "kludge" is no kludge at all, and
is unrelated to "Update Layout."
Hmm, maybe it's not "update layout" then. Let me be more specific.
I've got a piece with a lot of time signature changes and one of them
has a parenthetic; that is, it changes to 6/2 but right after the 6/2
it shows 3/1 in parentheses. I know of no way to draw that in the
regular time signature, so I've just done it as regular 6/2 and I've
created an expression to show the (3/1). I then respace to create
extra room after the time signature to fit my expression in.
So far, so good, except that this time signature change happens to
fall on a system break, which I can't avoid. Therefore I need the
parenthesized time signature to appear at the end of the prior system
as well. Now it's a problem because that space isn't part of any
measure. Finale just ends the previous measure early with only just
enough room for the time signature to fit after the barline.
Therefore I trick Finale into ending the measure early: I add space
to the previous measure, update the layout, and then remove the extra
space without updating the layout. This works perfectly on the
screen, and I thought it would work perfectly over all, but I find
that as soon as I print, Finale sees through my stratagem and moves
the barline to the right anyway, pushing my parenthesized expression
out into the right margin.
There are more elaborate kludges I could resort to, but they are
problematic, in part because my client cares about the MusicXML code,
not just the printed look, so it's an issue to do things like add an
invisible measure.
If anyone has a better idea, I'd love to hear it. The basic problem
is that I need to created space after the rightmost barline in a
system that is showing time signature at the end of the system.
Is there somewhere I can define the time signature numeral
characters? If I can blank out the plus and some digits I may be
able to fake something with a composite time signature.
mdl
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